Especially before and between the combo and the 3A there's really nothing except arm movements till the step sequence which is (as always) fast and well choreographed and executed with charisma and power but his technique in the turns lacks a lot of precision and his edges are just FLAT, how he can receive level 4 and +2/+3 is something that I really don't understand...

I have to look a the ss more closely but between the 4/2 and 3a there isn't much like skate based transitions.

Voronov was the major standard bearer from 2006 to 2010! He has been Russian champion twice.

then thats just terrible bad state, we all know Voronov by international judges standards has very low pcs
I hope for a Zhenya-Kovtun-Menshov podium after FS , it will be terrible if they let Gachinski medal with his 2 quad falls in FS

Even though I am not a huge fan of plushenko I cant help but be impressed when he comes out and skates like that after all his injuries and not having competed since last years euros! His 3a was especially good here

In K&S it is Plushenko with Mishin, David is from team Mishin and the younger one is an athlete of Russia athletics team who has been training off ice Plushenko the last two years, has become his shadow.